For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

Turkey’s military has continued to conduct deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to insurgent group Kurdistan ...

Erdogan's willingness to engage with Kurdish leaders signals a potential shift in Turkey's stalled peace process with the PKK ...

Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

Ocalan’s call and the PKK’s declaration were part of an effort to end the conflict that was initiated in October by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ally, Devlet Bahceli, who is the leader of Turkey’s ...

Turkey has carried out airstrikes in Sinjar, Iraq, the ancestral home of the Yezidis, every single year since 2017. The PKK came to the defense of Yezidis when the Islamic State launched their ...

Turkey's Kurds Wary of Path to Peace After PKK Declares Ceasefire DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) — A momentous ceasefire declaration on Saturday stirred a mix of emotions in southeast Turkey and ...

The PKK’s decision to try and hold ground in southeast Turkey, in 2015, may retrospectively be seen as a major error, resulting in the decimation of wide swathes of its heartland. It remains to ...

called on the PKK to disarm and dissolve itself in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey. Photo / AFP Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by ...

The Turkish government, however, says all Kurdish groups it claims are tied to the PKK — whether in Turkey, Syria or Iraq — must disband. Erdogan warned last week that Turkey would “always ...

On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK ...